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title: "Prohibited trading - Meaning & GFN's Figure - Get Funded Now"
description: "Activity a firm bans because it targets the trading environment rather than the market. It covers exploiting errors and pricing delays, coordinated…"
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Industry, legal and operations

# Prohibited trading

Activity a firm bans because it targets the trading environment rather than the market. It covers exploiting errors and pricing delays, coordinated trading between accounts, and third-party account management.

GFN’s figure

GFN prohibits exploiting platform errors, delayed or incorrect pricing, latency arbitrage, non-public information, front-running, coordinated trading between customers, account sharing, third-party challenge-passing services, manipulative hedging across accounts and deliberately exploiting market-close gaps.

Where prohibited trading is identified, GFN may review the account, restrict trading, reject evaluation progression, reject payouts or terminate the affected accounts.

In detail

## Prohibited trading, explained

The common thread is that the profit would come from the firm's systems rather than from a view about a market. That is the test, and it is why the lists published by different firms look so similar.

A single unusual trade is not normally the issue. What triggers a review is a pattern - repeated entries around a pricing anomaly, or identical activity across accounts that should be independent.

[The rule in full →](https://getfundednow.com/rules/prohibited-trading) · [Rules handbook](https://getfundednow.com/rules) · [More industry, legal and operations](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/category/industry)

Related

## Terms that come with it

Most rules only make sense next to the ones they interact with. These are the entries this one depends on.

- [Latency arbitrage](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/latency-arbitrage) - Trading on a price that is known to be stale because a faster feed has already moved. It profits from a delay in the environment rather than from any view about the market, and it is prohibited industry-wide.
- [Account sharing](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/account-sharing) - Letting someone else trade your account, or trading an account belonging to someone else. It defeats the purpose of an assessment of an individual, and it is prohibited everywhere in the industry without exception.
- [Copy trading](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/copy-trading) - Replicating trades from one account to another automatically. Copying between your own accounts is a scaling tool; copying another person's trades, or letting them trade yours, is a different activity entirely.
- [Hedging](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/hedging) - Holding opposing positions in the same or correlated instruments so that one offsets the other. Used genuinely it manages exposure; used across accounts it is an attempt to game an evaluation.
- [Account suspension](https://getfundednow.com/glossary/account-suspension) - A temporary restriction on trading or payouts while a firm reviews an account. It is not the same as a breach: the account still exists, but progression and withdrawals are paused pending the outcome.

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